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AN ANALYSIS OF SUICIDE CALLS RECEIVED BY A PERSONAL EMERGENCY TELEPHONE ADVISORY SERVICE AFTER TEN YEARS OF OPERATION
Author(s) -
Bartholomew Allen A.,
Olijnyk E.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1972.tb103637.x
Subject(s) - eleventh , service (business) , medical emergency , anxiety , psychology , medicine , business , psychiatry , marketing , acoustics , physics
The Personal Emergency Advisory (Telephone) Service, which has a concern for “suicide prevention” and the reduction of anxiety in the caller, has been operating in Melbourne since April, 1960. The experience of the first two years of operation has been described elsewhere. An analysis of the suicide calls for the tenth and eleventh years of operation (April, 1969, to March, 1971) is now presented. The criticisms of the criteria for suicide calls offered by Wilkins (1972) are noted.